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NORFOLK — Old Dominion tamed VCU’s press, solved Richmond’s matchup zones and survived LSU’s size. Wednesday’s home game against Georgia State offered a drastically different challenge: The nation’s highest-scoring backcourt tandem. R.J. Hunter and Ryan Harrow arrived as the nation’s No. 4 and 20 scorers, respectively, averaging a combined 43.2 points per game. As impressive, they were shooting a combined 47.9 percent from the field, 36.7 percent from beyond the 3-point arc. And lest you consider them a two-man show: The Panthers ranked ninth nationally in field goal accuracy at 50.9 percent. Translation: The Monarchs’ heretofore stingy...

With an influx of newcomers, the jury's still out on how good Denbigh baseball will be this season. But one thing is for certain: The Patriots will have a very different look.
Of the 15 players on head coach Chris Ochsenfeld's roster, only five are...

Jeff Jones, a regional college basketball staple for more than 30 years, is set to become Old Dominion’s next head coach.
The school will introduce Jones at a news conference Thursday, sources said Wednesday afternoon.
A former player and coach at the...

NORFOLK — Jeff Jones wasn't the first candidate to become Old Dominion men's basketball coach, but athletic director Wood Selig and president John Broderick described him as the best out of a crowded and capable field.
Jones was introduced Thursday at...

Old Dominion basketball coach Jeff Jones skewed local and familiar with his first two assistant coaches, Lamar Barrett and John Richardson.
Barrett, a native of Franklin, worked for Jones at American University the past three years and has extensive...

Old Dominion's young men's basketball team is suddenly even younger, after the discovery that veteran Donte Hill exhausted his eligibility.
Hill, a Virginia Beach native who would have been the team's only senior, transferred to ODU from Clemson...

Bryant Stith had just led Virginia to a victory at Maryland. But he had little interest in discussing his performance, the game or the team's national ranking.
This was Jan. 16, 1991, and less than an hour before tipoff, President Bush had ordered Desert...

NORFOLK — Bryce Simon thought he knew about hard work and toughness. Growing up in a one-stoplight town in southwestern Kansas, nothing is given.
He spent countless hours on schoolwork, maybe more in the gym. He was a 4.0 student with a sweet jump shot...

NEWPORT NEWS — For Jordan Baker, it still seems like yesterday that he was a freshman at Hampton High School. Now, he is starting over at Old Dominion, both as a student and as a basketball player.
"Everything is flying past me," Baker said....

Jim Corrigan's decision to move down the hallway of Old Dominion's athletic administration building and accept Karen Barefoot's offer to coach women's basketball boiled down to several factors.
"I'm a coach and of course I want to coach,"...

Scrambling to fill a last-minute open football date, Old Dominion replaced the Charlotte 49ers with Campbell for the upcoming season, ODU officials announced Wednesday night. Charlotte officials last week informed the Monarchs that they were canceling...

Change filled the sporting landscape in 2013. Some was gradual and incremental, some sudden and profound.
Familiar faces were gone, familiar schedules and relationships transformed perhaps for good. How well people and organizations adapt and adjust...

Armed with an eye-popping November overtime victory at North Carolina State, N.C. Central figures to be a contender for the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference championship.If they didn’t know already, the Hampton Pirates learned why Tuesday, losing 74-61...

NORFOLK — An overtime meltdown doomed Jeff Jones' Old Dominion coaching debut Friday night.
The Monarchs scrapped against Missouri State throughout regulation, overcoming foul trouble and their considerable shortcomings. They even showed the occasional...

Jeff Jones was just 18 hours removed from the end of basketball season and creeping along in Washington, D.C., rush-hour traffic, but his enthusiasm was evident.Jones’ first season at Old Dominion ended with a loss the night before, across the country...

HAMPTON — When Phoebus High's 2010-11 basketball season ended, it appeared that teammates and close friends Brian Darden and Breon Key had played their final organized game together.
Key was headed to Old Dominion, Darden to Radford. Future runs...

NORFOLK — The Constant Center was nearly vacant late Thursday as Old Dominion coach Jeff Jones leaned back in a chair and took one more exasperated look at the evening's box score.
"From where we started," he said, "we've taken big...

Few college basketball teams replace one Final Four coach with another. Kentucky transitioned from Joe B. Hall to Eddie Sutton to Rick Pitino, Louisville from Denny Crum to Pitino, UCLA from John Wooden to Gene Bartow. Add George Mason to the list....

There are reasons why none of them would have lasted this long. Hampton has the size of a team from the '50s, Kecoughtan runs more hot and cold than the weather of late, and Woodside has as much depth as Gene Hackman's group in "Hoosiers."
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